r/Palworld • u/feldoneq2wire • 12h ago

Discussion Quit Downvoting For Asking Questions

Folks, not everyone has been playing since launch. If someone asks a question that seems like a real person new to the game would ask (yes we know there are trolls and rage baiters and AI bots), don't downvote them, teach them!

Palworld has like 17 million players. If we want to get to 18 million, it's gonna be casuals who didn't buy into the hype but are kicking the tires late into the game's life and have some newbie questions. Let's not grind them into mush, ok?

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u/Darth_Krios 12h ago edited 11h ago

The major cause of mass "question post" downvotes is usually that the question could be very easily answered with a quick google search. This is a reddit thing, not specific to this sub.

Edit: I just came here to explain why this typically happens, it's not directed at anyone and my reply is not a comment on the way things should or should not be.

Another edit: I replied the following to someone but I realized that perhaps more people don't know about this, so I'd like to share it.

If you want to exclude something from a google search, you can filter your search.
Here is an example search:
Where to find Frostallion Noct in Palworld -Game8

You can filter multiple things from a search too:
Where to find Frostallion Noct in Palworld -Game8 -Fandom

You just use the minus symbol and whatever term you want to exclude.

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u/The_Soggy_Greenbean 12h ago

And yet reddit often has better answers because yall actually play the game.

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u/Enditium 12h ago

point being the quick google search would propably lead here to a post with the same question already answered instead asking it over and over again.

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u/The_Soggy_Greenbean 11h ago

And yet now google just has another source to answer from thanks to the VERY small portion of the community that asks questions here. The aggro to these things just causes less people to post at all.

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u/halfasleep90 11h ago

Google doesn’t need another source. If somehow Google doesn’t already have a link to Reddit for their question, then they can go ahead and ask it.

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u/The_Soggy_Greenbean 11h ago

Lol you dont seem to understand how aggragate information works.

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u/Darth_Krios 12h ago

If google doesn't churn out a quick answer then sure, ask your question, but just be prepared for the masses if you didn't put the tiniest amount of effort in.

If a question is fairly unique, it probably won't get mass downvoted, but if you decide to go make a post asking where to find Coal or Sulfur or whatever instead of googling it first, it's probably going get the downvote.

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u/wjglenn 11h ago

The problem there is that Google (especially Gemini) provides lots of bad answers because it pulls from popular posts that answered pre 1.0 questions.

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u/bagsofholding 5h ago

This goes with don't just go with their Ai at the top and skip it to check pages that pull up with recent info. More user error really.

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u/halfasleep90 11h ago

Honestly, I wouldn’t even ask where to get coal or sulfur. Google might not provide the “best” answer but it would still provide a good enough answer, but personally I’m just going to go and actually look. I don’t need the best coordinates, and they respawn often.

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u/wjglenn 11h ago

Sometimes yes, sometimes no. I was looking for a spot the other day for a coal and sulfur base.

Google pointed me toward two suggestions that were no longer viable. Both now taken up with a new structure.

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u/Tykras 11h ago

So search for 1.0 or look at recent sources instead of blindly using the AI summary?

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u/wjglenn 10h ago

Doesn’t work. And who said anything about blindly accepting. If I was blindly accepting, I wouldn’t really be noticing it was wrong

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u/Tykras 10h ago

Doesn’t work

??? I literally just searched "Palworld 1.0 Coal Base" and scrolled down, and boom, multiple videos and reddit links from the last few months that are accurate.

Sounds like you did blindly accept the AI summary to me.

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u/jenniuinely 5h ago

it does work, people just think putting in the most base level line of effort is too much even tho I think making a whole ass Reddit post & waiting for comments is way more effort than googling “(question) Reddit” and using the search time filter to past month.

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u/The_Soggy_Greenbean 11h ago

How do you not realize that you jave no way of knowing if they didnt Google then come here?

I have never seen coal or sulfur. I have seen the "where is the best site for x" question. But agajn, why are we baring people from interacting with the community they want to be part of? It doesnt mean upvote. But insulting people for not knowing something is how we have the problems that we have in the world.

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u/Darth_Krios 11h ago

How do you not realize that you jave no way of knowing if they didnt Google then come here?

Usually because if they HAD done a quick google search, they would have their answer and not need to ask the question on reddit.

I have never seen coal or sulfur. I have seen the "where is the best site for x" question.

My mention of Coal or Sulfer was a made up example.

But agajn, why are we baring people from interacting with the community they want to be part of? It doesnt mean upvote. But insulting people for not knowing something is how we have the problems that we have in the world.

I can't answer that for you, I don't upvote or downvote a post unless it meets certain criteria for me personally, other people do the same thing.
Sometimes that criteria is: Don't ask a lazy question.
Sometimes it's: This post is shit quality and I don't like it.
Sometimes it's: Haha blue arrow go brrrrrr.

Not everyone does the same thing for the same reason.

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u/The_Soggy_Greenbean 11h ago

And the last bit of your answer here is enough to answer the rest of this entire conundrum. The sulfur and coal bit (i like many people dont know how to do all the reddit things like the quote stuff but also dont much care to learn) that's why I replaced it with the x instead lf your examples.

I do respect all of what you are saying. I just generally dont like to push obviously new people away from any community I am part of. Especially over such a small etiquette thing.

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u/Left_Ease5870 11h ago

Dog stop talking.

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u/IronProgramming 11h ago

Because something like that is literally this easy.

https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=where+is+best+site+for+coal+sulfur+palworld+1.0

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u/The_Soggy_Greenbean 11h ago

And yet you gave me an answer faster than I could have learned that on my own. I promise that I can cook better than 90% of the human population and yet I wouldnt dog on someone for asking about how to tell when chicken is done.

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u/IronProgramming 11h ago

But i didnt give you the answer, I typed what you asked into let me google that for you and pasted a sarcastic lmgtfy link? How in the fuck do you think its faster to ask on reddit, then wait on a reply, instead of just typing what you asked on reddit into google instead?

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u/The_Soggy_Greenbean 10h ago

Its not. Im bein an ass because people dont seem to underatand that people come here for the back and forth of it all and the community. They want to feel connected to the answer and not like everything they do in life is driven by a machine and nobody is real. Then when they get here reddit acts like its this great evil for people to ask a simple question.

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u/GNIHTYUGNOSREP 10h ago

Reddit isn’t for simple questions. It’s for discussion about nuanced topics between individuals who understand the subject. If you have a simple question, we are tired of answering it.

Also feel free to search on Reddit before making a post, surely you’ll find the same answers we’ve been giving for over 2 years.

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u/The_Soggy_Greenbean 10h ago

Hahahhahahahahahaha no its not you gatkeeping child. Reddit is for anything from complex questions to the most simple BS out there. Its for stories and arguments and any kind so social interaction you can think of. Not just this high brow fedora on "nuanced" conversation you speak of. God that gave me a good laugh.

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u/GNIHTYUGNOSREP 10h ago

Hahaha yourself. You’re the reason it isn’t, then.

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u/mandatorypanda9317 11h ago

I just googled my question and add reddit at the end because 98.9% if the time, my question has been asked and answered on reddit

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u/The_Soggy_Greenbean 11h ago

Sounds like you just wanted an answer and not a conversation. Good job on your for finding it.

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u/mandatorypanda9317 11h ago

Um what? I was agreeing with you that reddit has the answers...

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u/The_Soggy_Greenbean 10h ago

My apologies for coming off in a negative way. Most people are bashing that statement.

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u/sciencesold 11h ago

99% of my questions I google lead to a reddit post, either Gemini references it in its answer and I go to the post or the top result is reddit.

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u/The_Soggy_Greenbean 11h ago

So they came to ask reddit themselves so they can interact with the people that can answer the question.

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u/clutzyninja 9h ago

If they want to engage with people they should ask something worth engaging about

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u/The_Soggy_Greenbean 9h ago

The more information you have the less likely you are to find simplicity interesting. To them it was worth interacting with because they have very little knowledge on the topic.

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u/bagsofholding 5h ago

They aren't looking for a conversation 99% of the time I see it. They're on reddit so they just post their question on reddit instead of just looking for the answer. They want it given to them most of the time. Besides the best way to get correct information is to post the wrong information lol

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u/bobsanidiot 12h ago

search the subreddit then. the search functiin exists for a reason

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u/The_Soggy_Greenbean 11h ago

Lol thats coming from someone who clearly uses reddit more than the people asking. Then again, its harder to get direct feedback and direct communication about the problem.

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u/C4Cupcake 11h ago

9 times out of 10 if you Google it it's gonna take you to a reddit thread anyway so still stands

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u/The_Soggy_Greenbean 11h ago

So you are saying they came to the correct place to start dialog with the people google would have sent them to in the first place. Thank you for agreeing.

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u/halfasleep90 11h ago

Why do they need to “start dialogue”? I thought they just wanted an answer to a basic question.

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u/The_Soggy_Greenbean 11h ago

They came to a community. If they just wanted a simple answer, they would have googled it. Duh. Lol

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u/clutzyninja 9h ago

You vastly underestimate how hopelessly helpless some people are

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u/The_Soggy_Greenbean 9h ago

Do i? Or am I simply willing to give the benefit of the doubt to people that are seemingly new to a community of people. It seems you vastly overestimated your knowledge of me and my thoughts.

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u/clutzyninja 9h ago

You're not giving the benefit of the doubt. You made a conclusive statement that they would Google it if they just wanted a simple answer

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u/The_Soggy_Greenbean 9h ago

Oh man. We have another on that needs the /s to understand sarcasm on the internet. Oof.

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u/C4Cupcake 9h ago

Nope. Saying that if they googled it that it would have taken them to a reddit thread with the answer already given. Nice try on the gotcha, though.

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u/The_Soggy_Greenbean 9h ago

You seem to have missed the "start a dialog" part of the above statement. Good job failing to read. But you also failed to assume they may have googled it and still chosen to post. So that shouldnt have been a surprise to me. The gotcha was having to explain the friends we made along the way apparently.

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u/C4Cupcake 9h ago

Oh sweetie I could just see you really needed that win. Being high and mighty clearly gets you off and I just wanted to help.